CHAPTER YIII. 



SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. 



Camillus House, 



Camillus, New Yorx, 



June Third. 



^PUNTED in front of the Yanderbilt 

 House, Syracuse, at four o'clock in the 

 afternoon. A large number of friends 

 and acquaintances had assembled to see 

 me off, among them many G. A. R. 

 comrades, including General Sniper and 

 Captain Auer; the latter a companion 

 in Libby Prison during the late war. 

 Thomas Babcock, who had been acting 

 as an assistant to my advance agents, accom- 

 panied me as far as Geddes, and ari'anged to co- 

 operate with my brother and Mr. Farrington in jn'ep- 

 aration for my lecture. In passing through this little 

 suburb of Geddes, whose name by the way, keeps in 

 memory one of the prominent men of Onondaga 

 County, my attention was drawn to a fine building 

 standing on a hill, overlooking Syracuse. I learned 

 that it was the New York Asylum for Imbeciles and 

 that the site, a magnificent sweep of upland, measur- 

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